December 12, 2012, 2:41PM

The Jefferson Parish Council on Wednesday approved a $562 million budget for 2013 that will essentially maintain services at current levels, but will invest relatively little to fix an aging infrastructure Full story »

December 12, 2012, 2:16PM

The Algiers office of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board will reopen Thursday after a broken heating system forced it to shut its doors Wednesday. S&WB spokesman Robert Jackson announced that the office will resume its regular hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Customers who need assistance today have been directed to visit the S&WB's headquarters at 625... Full story »

December 12, 2012, 2:09PM

The ongoing cleanup at the defunct Pre-Stressed Concrete Products plant in Mandeville -- where sections of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway were fabricated decades ago -- will be discussed at the Mandeville City Council meeting Thursday night. Council member Carla Buchholz said she has invited the contractor handling the cleanup, Central Rock, to appear at the meeting to provide a... Full story »

December 12, 2012, 2:05PM

The Jefferson Parish Council agreed Wednesday to pay a roadbuilder an extra $345,202 for a Metairie job that was improperly designed by a consulting engineer. The vote came after an administration official told the council that the increase would have been needed even had the job been correctly designed. The contract called for improvements to the busy intersection of... Full story »

December 12, 2012, 12:58PM

Water service will be interrupted for a few hours Thursday in at least a small portion of the Meadow Lake subdivision in Slidell. Tammany Utilities will be working on a water main at the intersection of Meadow Lake Drive East and Meadow Lake Drive West at 9 a.m. in connection with drainage improvements being made in the subdivision, according to... Full story »

December 12, 2012, 11:02AM

The Algiers office of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board on General DeGaulle Boulevard closed indefinitely Wednesday after its heating system failed. Repairs are underway, S&WB spokesman Robert Jackson said in an email. Once finished, the office will reopen. Customers in the meantime are being directed to the water board's headquarters at 625 St. Joseph St. in the Central... Full story »

December 12, 2012, 10:25AM

Some Jefferson Parish building inspectors have been accused of taking bribes, and Parish Council members want to know what the administration is doing about it. The council is expected Wednesday to debate a surprise resolution to have Parish President John Young's administration report its findings next week to the Governmental Ethics Compliance and Audit Committee and to have that... Full story »

December 12, 2012, 7:35AM

Despite an intensifying pace, little progress is being reported in talks on averting automatic spending cuts and tax increases that economists fear could send the U.S. economy off a "fiscal cliff." Full story »

December 12, 2012, 6:33AM

With a deadline approaching to challenge results of the Nov. 6 referendum that approved tolls on the Crescent City Connection for 20 years, a West Bank civic leader will ask the Jefferson Parish Council today to formally contest the results. Wade Perrin, president of the Voters League of Unincorporated West Jefferson, said he will ask the council to stand... Full story »

December 11, 2012, 11:00PM

Two controversial state pension measures shot down by the Louisiana Legislature last session are poised to make a comeback, tied this time to a proposal to offer automatic cost-of-living adjustments for some state workers after they retire. The two measures, an increase in both the amount of money employees contribute to their own retirement and the number of months... Full story »